On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Michael G. <[email protected]> wrote:
> When you say "Hide in todo", under the General section I see "Hide the > branch in To-Do". I assume this is the same and it does exactly what I > wanted. > Yes, that's right. It's an inherited attribute of a task. > > I'm using the PC and Android version but on the PC I don't see anything > about using Next Actions. ...What am I missing? I'm running the latest > version 3.6.1. This isn't a big deal as it sounds like it isn't supported > in Android. > Ah. "Next action" isn't a property of a task, but a "state" or "concept" that is supported in the Todo tab filters. Let me go on a tangent for a moment...So you have this tree of tasks -- the tree in the Outline. Those are what I consider the physical locations of the tasks. Likewise, each task has a set of properties / attributes. Then the Todo tab gives you ways of viewing (slicing and dicing) your tasks without moving the task in the tree or changing the attributes. Basically database queries, many predefined, which you can also edit and refine to your processes (fully on the desktop, less so on Android). Concepts such as Active, Next Action, Computed-Score, look at attributes of the task and the tasks around them to see if they fit a certain set of criteria that the "view" has defined. So the user can say something, "Show me all my tasks due in the next seven days that I can work on right now except Personal tasks" The Next Action control for the current View (ie, filter) is located in the top left of the Todo tab on Windows, (You may have to expand "Filter>>"). Next Actions is a concept that means the next actionable item in each Project. By changing your Action Filter to "Next Actions" you will see only the first task in each Project. I don't use it so there may be other intricacies I don' t know about. > A nice feature would be to have the task lisk change the to-do color from > green to something else if a task in the folder was skipped so you're > reminded to go back and check. > What do you mean by "skipped", as in, how would MLO know you had skipped it? MLO doesn't know if you are arranging your tasks in the order that you want to do them, or by some other criteria. Green means "Active". I guess I would argue that the green *is* your reminder; everything green still needs action. But you might be able to mess with the formatting rules to get what you want. My suggestion would be to see what filters you can develop. I do almost all of my "execution" of tasks from a todo view. I see outline more as planning and organizing, not seeing what I should work on. Lisa > Michael G. > > > On Sunday, July 15, 2012 9:51:04 AM UTC-4, Lisa S wrote: > >> One way to skip a task, is to use "Hide-in-todo". Then the next task will >> become active. However, the "hide-in-todo" task never will, so you really >> are completely skipping it, not putting it off for later. >> >> If you are working only on the PC, you might consider another strategy, >> which is, don't use "complete in order" but then, in your views, use "Next >> Actions" in your actions filters. Next-Actions are the first in their >> folder that are active. That way, you can easily go back and forth between >> Next Actions and Active Actions views. >> >> Of course, this may present problems if you want most of your tasks to >> show everything but only certain projects to show next actions. You would >> need to use advanced filtering for this. >> >> (I thought there was an advanced criteria "NextAction is true/false" -- >> is my nonstandard version correct that this doesn't exist?) >> >> Lisa >> >> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 1:04 AM, robisme <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> you shoul add a dependencie to the less important task. >>> I mean : make the less important task waiting for the most important to >>> be completed. >>> >>> Le jeudi 12 juillet 2012 04:08:02 UTC+2, Michael G. a écrit : >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> I have templates set up for my projects and for the projects, I have >>>> "Complete subtasks in order" checked. This works fine but frequently I have >>>> "less important" tasks I have to skip and would like to show something that >>>> I want to work on next in the to-do list. I know I can move tasks up an >>>> down the list, but I like to keep them in order as I use folders >>>> to categorize tasks. Any suggestions on skipping a task or forcing another >>>> task to the the next action I work on? >>>> >>>> One other question, if I assign a due date to a task, is there any way >>>> to have this show in the to-do list even if it isn't the next task to be >>>> completed? 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